Family Engagement Coordinator

For more than 126 years, Epworth Children’s Home has grown and adapted to the individual needs of children and families by providing a safe and nurturing environment, evidence‑based practices, and programs across the continuum of care throughout South Carolina. The organization’s mission is to serve children, youth, and families through caring, safe, Christian communities where hurts are healed, hope is nurtured, and faith in God, self, and others is developed.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary facilitator for mutual self‑help groups, run and facilitate parenting classes, and provide wrap‑around services for the Institute of Child and Family Wellbeing, including marketing, parent recruitment, site management, and leading the group until a peer leader emerges.
• Facilitate a nationally recognized self‑help group with the same marketing, recruitment, site management, and leadership responsibilities.
• Build the Circle of Parents into a statewide program and collect and analyze data from the self‑help groups.
• Teach, lead, and facilitate parenting classes for families of origin, kinship families, and foster parents.
• Develop an organized children’s program for Circle of Parents children to attend during group sessions.
• Assist in the intake and assessment of kinship families, potentially maintaining a small caseload.
• Provide additional wrap‑around support services for the Institute of Child and Family Wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or a related field preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in human services required.
• Understanding of children, adolescent, and family treatment and ability to deliver evidence‑based practice with fidelity.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including public speaking.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations.
• Proficiency in writing reports and business correspondence; capable of presenting information and responding to questions from managers, clients, and the public.
• Skill in defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
• Successful completion of standard background checks (drug screen, employment physical, FBI check, SLED, DSS Central Registry, and Sex Offenders Registry).
• Personal belief system and faith practices compatible with those of the United Methodist Church.

Benefits

• Rewarding client‑focused work environment.
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans.
• Company‑paid life insurance.
• Voluntary benefits such as short‑term disability, long‑term disability, and group life insurance.
• 403(b) retirement plan with company match.
• Ample vacation and sick leave.
• Mission/volunteer leave.
• Credit union membership.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
• Career opportunities throughout the state of South Carolina.